Environmental Cost Management, Inc.

Environmental Cost Management, Inc., a minority-owned, Subchapter S corporation and self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, operates as a prime contractor (95% of awards) and subcontractor delivering environmental consulting, site assessment, remediation engineering, hazardous materials management, and contamination cleanup services across federal land management agencies and the Department of the Navy under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open competition. The company competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides across its prime contract footprint, with minority-owned and small disadvantaged business designations anchoring access to federal vehicles.

Environmental Cost Management specializes in environmental site investigations, CERCLA and RCRA response activities, post-disaster hazardous materials remediation, PFAS testing, abandoned mine remediation, and environmental compliance engineering on western federal lands. Representative prime work includes a $674,563.38 delivery order from the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 3 for Gallinas Mountains mines remediation in New Mexico (awarded January 2026, total small business set-aside), a $29.675 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with Forest Service Region 5 for non-CERCLA environmental site investigation, cleanup, and disaster response work across California, Arizona, and New Mexico (awarded May 2023, $1.72 million obligated to date), and a $17.325 million CERCLA environmental response IDIQ with Forest Service Region 5 through October 2028 (awarded November 2023).

The vendor maintains a portfolio of nine government-wide and agency-specific indefinite delivery vehicles valued at over $99 million in combined ceiling, anchored by participation in the GSA OASIS+ Total Small Business Set-Aside IDIQ ($999,999,999,999 ceiling, awarded December 2024, $2,500 minimum guarantee) and the Naval Sea Systems Command SeaPort-NxG multiple-award IDIQ ($4 billion ceiling, awarded January 2025, $500 minimum guarantee). The vendor also holds a $30 million Department of Interior Environmental Support Services BPA (awarded August 2026), a $7.5 million Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region hazardous materials single-award BPA (awarded June 2024), a $7.5 million Forest Service Region 2 CERCLA BPA (awarded November 2023), and a $7 million Forest Service Region 8 environmental consulting BPA (awarded March 2023). The vendor operates on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with a $2 million ceiling (awarded May 2025) and carries 38 active labor categories spanning $66.44 to $226.50 per hour across field technician, UXO technical specialist, environmental engineer, and principal consultant roles, with no security-cleared positions.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Forest Service regions and Interior bureau regional offices. The top five customer organizations by award count—Forest Service Region 3 Southwestern Region (41 awards, $35.8 million combined potential value), Forest Service Region 5 Pacific Southwest Region (40 awards, $79.2 million combined potential value), Interior Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region (22 awards, $1.7 million), Interior BLM California Region (20 awards, $3.7 million), and Interior BLM National Office (20 awards, $61 million)—account for 58% of awards. However, potential value rankings diverge sharply: the top five by dollar value include Naval Sea Systems Command (2 awards, $4 billion—dominated by the SeaPort-NxG IDIQ ceiling), Naval Facilities Engineering Command (18 awards, $83.6 million), Forest Service Region 5 (40 awards, $79.2 million), BLM National Office (20 awards, $61 million), and Forest Service Region 3 (41 awards, $35.8 million), accounting for 99% of combined potential value. This divergence signals that the vendor's large vehicles with Navy are GWACs with placeholder ceilings, while Forest Service and BLM relationships comprise the operational task order volume.

The vendor places work across five primary vehicle families: the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (121 task orders, $86.5 million combined potential value), undifferentiated National Environmental Support Services vehicles (52 task orders, $4.8 million), the Professional Services Schedule (24 task orders, $3.3 million), Forest Service Region 3 environmental response IDIQs (22 task orders, $3.6 million), and the CERCLA Environmental Response 2018-2023 vehicle (21 task orders, $2.6 million). Task order activity has declined from 22 awards in 2023 to 10 in 2026 year-to-date, signaling potential recompete pressure—twelve awards (combined potential value $2.9 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months.

In subcontract roles, Environmental Cost Management performs CERCLA investigative and analytical services, engineering evaluation and cost analysis support, groundwater monitoring, environmental consulting, and unexploded ordnance (UXO) technical services to prime contractors Bering Sea Eccotech LLC (six sub awards spanning 2023–2026 for operational range clearance, UXO demilitarization, and range sustainment at Naval Air Facility El Centro, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center 29 Palms, MCAS Yuma, and San Clemente Island) and AECOM Technical Services, Inc. (three sub awards for contaminated site consulting at Kings Canyon National Park, Death Valley National Park, and Yosemite National Park, 2023–2024). The subcontract footprint represents 5% of the vendor's total award count and is concentrated in Navy facility environmental and range clearance work.

Environmental Cost Management's award history reflects sustained volume in the western federal environmental remediation market, driven by Forest Service and Interior regional offices pursuing CERCLA, post-disaster, and mine site cleanup. The vendor competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on Forest Service and BLM task orders but also competes full-and-open on Navy and GSA Schedule vehicles. Recent activity through September 2026 spans PFAS drinking water system testing, mine remediation engineering, post-fire hazmat removal, landfill monitoring, and riparian restoration across California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Kentucky, and Colorado.

ECM provides strategies for and implementation of environmental site closures; investigations; 3D data visualizations & modeling; soil, groundwater & waste remediation; risk assessment; monitored natural attenuation; regulatory negotiations; and design.